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As the Commissioner of the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission for thirty years, Elmer C. Bartels became a national leader on issues related to vocational rehabilitation and independent living for people with disabilities. While studying physics at Colby College in 1960, Bartels broke his neck in an inter-fraternity hockey game, but returned to complete his degree and then to earn an MS at Tufts. While working as a computer programmer at the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at MIT and later at Honeywell, he became involved in coordinating services and access that members of the community needed to survive. To address the range of issues relating to employment, housing, and architectural barriers for people with disabilities, he helped found three significant organizations: the Massachusetts Association of Paraplegiacs (1964), the Massachusetts Council of Organizations of the Handicapped (a cross-disability organization created in the late 1960s with Harold Remmes) and the Boston Center for Independent Living (1972). Bartels was a key figure in securing passage of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, considered the first civil-rights statute for persons with disabilities. In 1977, Bartels was appointed to the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission by Gov. Michael Dukakis, serving under seven successive administrations, leaving an important mark on public policy. Since leaving the MRC, Bartels has remained active as a teacher and advocate for disability issues.

The Bartels Papers are an important resource for study of the early history of disability advocacy and public policy in Massachusetts. The collection includes a wealth of material on the formation and activity of the Massachusetts Association of Paraplegiacs, the National Paraplegia Foundation, and the Mass Rehabilitation Commission; correspondence with other leading figures in the disability rights movement; and publications relating to legislation on disability issues, vocational rehabilitation, and independent living.

The attorney Tom Behrendt has worked for years in the cause of civil rights for people with mental disabilities. A past president and long-time member of the Board of Directors of the National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy, Behrendt served previously as Legal Director of the Connecticut Legal Rights Project and he was a founding member of the Special Litigation and Appeals Unit of the Mental Hygiene Legal Service in New York. Behrendt’s involvements have included work with organizations such as Project Release, the Free Association, Advocacy Unlimited, and PAIMI (Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness).

The collection consists of a wide array of publications and documents relating the psychiatric survivors movement and Behrendt’s advocacy work. In addition to materials relating to NARPA conferences and a long run of NARPA’s newsletter, The Rights Tenet, the collection includes newsletters and other materials relating to the movement and issues such as electroconvulsive therapy.

The Boston and Albany Railroad was formed between 1867 and 1870 from the merger of three existing lines, the Boston and Worcester (chartered 1831), the Western (1833), and the Castleton and West Stockbridge (1834). The corporation was a primary east-west transit through the Commonwealth, with branches connecting towns including Athol, Ware, North Adams, and Hudson, N.Y.

The nineteen atlases comprising this collection include detailed plans documenting the location and ownership of rights of way, land-takings, and other land transfers to or from the railroad company. Dating from the early years of operation for the corporation to just after the turn of the century, the atlases include maps of predecessor lines (Boston and Worcester Railroad Corporation and Western Rail-Road), as well as the Grand Junction Railway Company (Charlestown, Somerville, Everett, and Chelsea), the Ware River Railroad, and the Chester and Becket Railroad.

Subjects

Boston and Albany Railroad Co.--Maps

Boston and Worcester Railroad Corporation--Maps

Chester and Becket Railroad--Maps

Grand Junction Railway Company--Maps

Railroads--Massachusetts--Maps

Real property--Massachusetts--Maps

Ware River Railroad--Maps

Western Rail-Road Corporation--Maps

Contributors

Boston & Albany Railroad Company. Engineering Department

Types of material

A significant African American poet of the generation of the 1960s, Dudley Randall was an even more significant publisher of emerging African American poets and writers. Publishing works by important writers from Gwendolyn Brooks to Haki Madhubuti, Alice Walker, Etheridge Knight, Audre Lorde, Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, and Sonia Sanchez, his Broadside Press in Detroit became an important contributor to the Black Arts Movement.

The Broadside Press Collection includes approximately 200 titles published by Randall’s press during its first decade of operation, the period of its most profound cultural influence. The printed works are divided into five series, Broadside poets (including chapbooks, books of poetry, and posters), anthologies, children’s books, the Broadside Critics Series (works of literary criticism by African American authors), and the Broadsides Series. . The collection also includes a selection of items used in promoting Broadside Press publications, including a broken run of the irregularly published Broadside News, press releases, catalogs, and fliers and advertising cards.

A pioneer in the psychiatric survivors’ movement, Judi Chamberlin spent four decades as an activist for the civil rights of mental patients. After several voluntary hospitalizations for depression as a young woman, Chamberlin was involuntarily committed for the only time in 1971, having been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Her experiences in the mental health system galvanized her to take action on patients’ rights, and after attending a meeting of the newly formed Mental Patients’ Liberation Project in New York, she helped found the Mental Patients’ Liberation Front in Cambridge, Mass. Explicitly modeled on civil rights organizations of the time, she became a tireless advocate for the patient’s perspective and for choice in treatment. Her book, On Our Own: Patient Controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System (1978), is considered a key text in the intellectual development of the movement. Working internationally, she became an important figure in several other organizations, including the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilition at Boston University, the Ruby Rogers Advocacy Center, the National Disability Rights Network, and the National Empowerment Center. In recognition of her advocacy, she was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities in 1992, the David J. Vail National Advocacy Award, and the 1995 Pike Prize, which honors those who have given outstanding service to people with disabilities. Chamberlin died of pulmonary disease at home in Arlington, Mass., in January 2010.

An important record of the development of the psychiatric survivors’ movement from its earliest days, the Chamberlin Papers include rich correspondence between Chamberlin, fellow activists, survivors, and medical professionals; records of her work with the MPLF and other rights organizations, conferences and meetings, and her efforts to build the movement internationally.

Subjects

Antipsychiatry

Ex-mental patients

People with disabilities--Civil rights

People with disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc.

Contributors

Mental Patients Liberation Front

Mental Patients Liberation Project

National Empowerment Center

Types of material

The Clark family played a prominent role in the colonial and early national history of Newton, Massachusetts. John Clark and his wife Elizabeth Norman settled in Cambridge Village (now Newton), Massachusetts, in about 1681, and played an active role in the public life of the town. His son William, grandson Norman, and great-grandson Norman followed in John’s footsteps, serving as Selectmen and, in the case of Norman, Jr., as the Collector of taxes during and after the Revolutionary War.

This small collection traces the early history of Newton, Mass., through the lives and activities of four generations of the family of John Clark. While the majority of the collection consists of deeds or related legal documents pertaining to properties in Newton (or in one case, Connecticut), a few items provide glimpses into other Clark family activities. As tax collector for Newton during and after the Revolution, Norman Clark, Jr., left an interesting documentary trail that touches on financial priorities in town, including the collection of taxes for support of the church, Revolutionary War soldiers, and road building.

Subjects

Clark Family

Newton (Mass.)--History--18th century

Real property--Massachusetts--Newton

Taxation--Massachusetts

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783

Contributors

Clark, John

Clark, Norman

Clark, William

Types of material

“… there must come vast social change in the United States; a change not violent, but by the will of the people certain and inexorable; carried out ‘with malice toward none but charity for all'; with meticulous justice to the rich and complete sympathy for the poor, the sick and the ignorant; with freedom and democracy for America, and on earth Peace, Good Will toward men.”

W.E.B. Du Bois, Chicago, June 29, 1951

In pursuit of our mission, the Department of Special Collections and University Archives collects materials of enduring historical and cultural value relating to four major thematic areas: the history and experience of social change in America; the histories and cultures of New England with an emphasis on Massachusetts; innovation and entrepreneurship; and the broad community associated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Our collections are highly integrated and span all formats, including personal papers and organizational records, books and periodicals, maps, photographs, audio and video recordings, and digital materials of all kinds.

Our approach to collecting

Echoing the philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois, SCUA collects original materials that document the histories and experiences of social change in America and the organizational, intellectual, and individual ties that unite disparate struggles for social justice, human dignity, and equality. Our decision to adopt social change as a collecting focus emerged from considering one of Du Bois’s great insights: that the most fundamental issues in social justice are so deeply interconnected that no movement — and no solution to social ills — can succeed in isolation. Rather than focus on individual movements, we therefore focus on the connections between and among movements and the flow of people, organizations, and ideas, all in the hope of better representing the true histories of social engagement in America and laying the foundation for a deeper understanding of the experience of social change.

A related feature of SCUA’s approach to collecting is our commitment to documenting “whole lives and whole communities.” Rather than focus just on a person’s “significant” actions or ideas, our goal is to represent the person’s entire life in all its complexity: the person’s background, the events themselves, and the aftermath, as well as the range of colleagues and organizations engaged. Our goal is not to highlight simply the great achievements and great people, but to reveal the broad underpinnings of influences, interests, and organizations that shaped them and the communities in which they operated.

While not exhaustive, the following is a synopsis of the primary focal points for SCUA’s collections:

Emphasizing the cross-fertilization between social movements and centers of activist energy, SCUA collects materials from individuals and organizations involved in the struggles for peace and non-violence, social and racial justice, economic justice, agricultural reform, environmentalism, sustainability, alternative energy, organized labor, gay rights, disability rights, spiritual activism, antinuclear activism, and intentional communities. Our collections branch out to include anti-fluoridation activism, campaigns for voting rights and clean elections, community and charitable organizations, and the history of revolutionary-era Europe (1789-1848).

Arts management and arts administration: In partnership with the UMass Amherst Arts Extension Service, the National Endowment for the Arts, Americans for the Arts, and several other arts agencies, SCUA documents the history of arts administration in America. Collecting the records of state and national arts agencies, we will provide a foundation for research into the evolution of arts policy, strategies for supporting the arts, and the economic and cultural impact of the arts on our communities.

Cold War Culture: The culture of the Cold War, with an emphasis upon East Germany, Poland, and Yugoslavia. Among other areas, SCUA has a strong interest in the Solidarity movement and in partnership with the DEFA Film Library, in East German cinema and graphic arts.

Disability: Organizational records and collections of personal papers documenting the history of disability and disability rights in the United States.

SCUA collects materials that document innovative and entrepreneurial activities and particularly social entrepreneurship. Representative collections in SCUA include the papers of Mark H. McCormack (a pioneer in sport and entertainment marketing), Carl C. Harris (inventor and President of Rodney Hunt Co.), and numerous collections that document our region’s distinctive history of innovation in manufacturing and technology.

The social, political, cultural, intellectual, literary, and economic life, with an emphasis upon western New England. The department houses thousands of books on New England cookery, with a particular emphasis on charitable and community cookbooks and cookbooks and ephemera published by corporations and the food industry.

Cookery and culinary historySCUA has thousands of cookbooks and other materials on New England regional cuisine, including community and charitable cookbooks, commercial cookbooks by New England authors, corporate cookbooks, and culinary ephemera.

Politics and political cultureSCUA has rich collections documenting the history and politics of the Commonwealth, including the papers of Congressmen Silvio O. Conte and John Olver, State Senator Stanley Rosenberg, and State Representative John Clark; and the records of the Hampshire Council of Governments and several individual towns.

Serving as the memory of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, SCUA is steward for the official and unofficial records of the university that document the people, policies, programs, facilities, and activities of the campus community. The collections are a rich record of administrative activity at all levels, from system to program, but they focus on documenting the lives and activities of individual administrators, faculty, staff, students, and alumni.

Other areas

SCUA has developed depth in a handful of other collecting areas, including:

See Faculty/Staff Biography, Lists, Directories (collective) See also Individual Members of Faculty and Staff RG-40/11

Biological Hazards Committee (Research and Graduate Studies)

RG-9/1/2/4

Biological Sciences Library (1962- )

RG-8/3/9

Biology

RG-25/B6

See also Zoology Department RG-25/Z5; Botany Department RG-25/B8

Biology, Plant

RG-25/P4.5

See Plant Biology

Biomedical Research Support Grants

RG-9/2/3

See Faculty Research Grant, Biomedical Research Support Grant (F RG/BS RG) (Research and Graduate Studies)

Biopharmaceutical Research Unit

RG-17/1

See Public Health, Division of--Biopharmaceutical Research Unit

BIOrhythms (1997- )

RG-25/B6/00

Biosci Journal (1995- )

RG-25/B6/00

Note: A journal of undergraduate research at UMass/Amherst.

Biostatistics Technical Reports (1977)

RG-17/1

See Public Health, Division of--Biostatistics Technical Reports ;

Biotechnology Program

RG-25/B7

Biotechnology Program Committee (1985- )

RG-40/2/B5

Bisexual Concerns

RG-40/2/G2

See Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Concerns, The Chancellors Task Force on (1993- ); Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Concerns, Support Group for RG-40/2/G3; Programs for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Concerns RG-30/2/6

Bits and Bytes (1965-1989)

RG-29/00/1

Black and other Minority Students, Committee for the Collegiate Education of

RG-6/4/12

See Committee for the Collegiate Education of Black and other Minority Students (CCEBMS) (1967- )

Black Culture Center (New Africa House)

RG-30/26

Black Mass Communications Project (BMCP) (1968- )

RG-45/30/B4

Black Repertory Theatre

RG-25/T3.6

Black Student Union

RG-45/19

Black Students at UMass and in Western Massachusetts

RG-45/15

See also Protests and Demonstrations RG-45/101; Student Life RG-1/204; New Africa House RG-36/100; Lecturers from outside the University RG-1/12

Black Studies Program

RG-25/A4

See Afro-American Studies, W.E.B. Du Bois Dept. of See also Five College Cooperation RG-60/5; Five College Black Studies RG-60/5/3

See also Lectures (Faculty and Staff) RG-40/1/2; Chancellor's Lecture Series (1975-1986) RG-186/1

Distinguished Teaching Awards

RG-1/11

See Awards, Prizes

Distinguished Visitor's Program (DVP) (1960-1996)

RG-45/50/D5

Diversity and Development, Center for

RG-45/80/C4

See Center for Diversity and Development (CDD) (1996- )

Diversity and Social Justice, Counsel on Community

RG-4/17

See Counsel on Community, Diversity and Social Justice (1997)

Diversity Office, Equal Opportunity and

RG-4/7

See Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity and Diversity Office

Divine Light Club

RG-45/70/D5

See Divine Light Mission

Divine Light Mission (Religious Group) (1973- )

RG-45/70/D5

Doctoral Dissertations (1911- )

RG-46/1

See UMass Library catalog for holdings; See also Theses and Dissertations (Films and Videotapes)

Documents, Government (Library) (1955- )

RG-8/3/3

Donahue Institute

RG-3/8

See Institute for Governmental Services (IGS), Donahue

Dormitory and Area Government

RG-32

See Housing Services

DPC

RG-35/7

See Data Processing Center (DPC)

Dr. Suess Club (1956)

RG-45/40/D7

Draft Counseling Services (1981)

RG-45/80/D7

Dramatic Society

RG-45/40/M3

See MAC Dramatic Society

Drill Team, Equestrian

RG-45/40/E6

See Equestrian Drill Team

Drop-Out Problem, Student

RG-40/2/R5

See Retention Committee--Student Drop-Out Problem (1985- )

Drug Drop-In Center

RG-30/10

See Room to Move

Drum (1970-1988)

RG-45/00/D7

DSA

See Democratic Socialist of America (DSA)

DTA

RG-1/11

See Awards, Prizes (Distinguished Teaching Awards)

Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, W. E. B.

RG-25/A4

See Afro-American Studies, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of

Duplicate Collection

RG-99

Duplicate Collection, Alumni Materials

RG-99/1

Duplicate Collection, Annual Reports (1863-1989)

RG-99/2

Duplicate Collection, Buildings and Grounds (Distinguished Architecture for a State University) (1966)

RG-99/3

Duplicate Collection, Catalogs (Bulletin Series) (1914- )

RG-99/4

Duplicate Collection, Chancellors Lecture Series (1974-1978)

RG-99/5

Duplicate Collection, Histories of Campus (1917, 1933, 1963)

RG-99/6

Duplicate Collection, Missions and Goals, A Report of the Commission on (1976)

RG-99/8

Duplicate Collection, Stosag (Stockbridge School) (1961- )

RG-99/9

Duplicate Collection, The Index (1871- )

RG-99/7

Duplicating (Administrative Services)

RG-35/9

Durfee Garden (Physical Plant) (1993- )

RG-36/104/D8

DVP

RG-45/50/D5

See Distinguished Visitors Program (DVP)

Dyslexic Student Organization

RG-6/4/15

See Communication Skills Center

EAP Update (Employee Assistance Program Newsletter) (1980-1986)

RG-30/15/5

Early American Literature (1966-1983)

RG-25/E3/00

Early Campus Planning (1864-1933)

RG-6/15/1

Early Childhood Education, Center for

RG-13/4/10

See also Early Childhood Education, Center for (1967-1977) RG-13/3/19/2

East Asian Collection and Reference Library

RG-25/A8/2

East European Studies

RG-25/S7.5

See Soviet and East European Studies (Program and Committee)

Echoes (1985-1987)

RG-25/E1/00

Eco Latino

RG-45/00/C6

See The Massachusetts Daily Collegian

Economic Development

RG-4/9

See Chancellor's Working Group for Economic Development ; Center for Economic Development RG-12/12; University Center for Economic Development (1977) RG-6/4/14/2; Vice Chancellor for Research, Graduate Education and Economic Development (1993- ) RG-9/1; Office of Economic Development RG-4/15; Economic Development, Working Group on RG-4/15/1

Economic Development, Center for (School of Management)

RG-12/12

See also University Center for Economic Development RG-6/4/14/2

Economic Development, Chancellors Working Group for

RG-4/9

See Chancellors Working Group for Economic Development (Steering Committee) ; See also Economic Development, Working Group on RG-4/15/1

See Published Histories and Historian's Files ; See also Duplicate Collection, Histories of Campus RG-99/6

History Committee, University (1986-1987)

RG-40/2/H5

See also Campus Awareness Committee (1986- ) RG-40/2/C5

History Department

RG-25/H5

History Institute

RG-25/H5.5

History Newsletter (1977- )

RG-25/H5/00

History of the University

RG-1/202

History of the University, By periods (1850- )

RG-1/202/2

History of the University, General (1851-1960's)

RG-1/202/1

History Project, University

RG-1/208

See University History Project (125th Anniversary, 1987-1988)

History, Oral

RG-1/207

See Oral History

HMO (Health Maintenance Organization)

RG-30/15

See Health Services

Hobbit, The (Student Publication) (1967)

RG-45/00/H6

Hockey, Men's

RG-18/2

See Sports-Men's Hockey (1910- )

Hokkaido University Committee

RG-40/2/A3

See Foreign and International Studies Council (Faculty Senate, 1967- )

Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

RG-2/3

See Trustee William Wheeler ; President William Smith Clark RG-3/1; Professor Horace E. Stockbridge RG-3/1; President Jean Paul Mather RG-3/1; President John Lederle RG-3/1; David Penhallow (Class of 1873) RG-50/6; See also International Agricultural Studies, Center for RG-15/4

See also Duplicate Collection--Missions and Goals, A Report of the Commission on (1976) RG-99/8 ; Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost O'Brien's Proposal-Mission and Approach (1987) RG-6/1 ; Trustees' Commission on the Future of the University (1988- ) RG-2/7

Notes from the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs (1973-1974,1977-1978)

RG-30/00/1

NOW

RG-45/80/N7

See National Organization for Women (1989- )

NU (Hillel) (1973, 1975)

RG-45/70/H5

Nummo News (1974-1991)

RG-30/26/N8

See also NOMMO (1990-1994) RG-45/00/N6

Nursery School

RG-25/H9.5

Nurses Association, Student

RG-45/40/S7.4

See Student Nurses Association (SNA) (1987- )

Nursing

RG-17/3

Nursing Alumni Association Newsletter (1989-1993)

RG-17/3

Nursing, School of

RG-17/3

See Nursing

Nutrient Data Bank, UMass

RG-25/F5/3

See Food Science and Nutrition, Dept. of--Nutrient Data Bank, UMass

Nutrition and Human Needs, Committee on (1971)

RG-45/80/N8

Nutrition Department

RG-25/F5

See Food Science and Nutrition Department

OAPA

RG-4/3/6

See Office of Academic Planning and Assessment (OAPA)

Obituaries, Biographies (Alumni)

RG-50/00/2

See also Health Services--Obituaries (Student) RG-30/15

Occasional Papers Series (International Area Studies)

RG-25/A8/00

See Asian Studies Program and Committee ; Latin American Studies Program and Committee RG-25/L4/00 ; Near Eastern Studies Program and Committee RG-25/N4/00 ; Soviet and East European Studies Program and Committee RG-25/S75/00 ; Western European Studies Program and Committee RG-25/W3/00

Occupational Education, Center for (School of Education)

RG-13/3/17/2

Ocean Engineering Program

RG-25/O2

OCHO

RG-45/18

See Off Campus Housing Office (OCHO)

OCIS

RG-6/5/1

See Office of Computing and Information Systems (OCIS) (1988- )

Off Campus Housing Office (OCHO)

RG-45/18

Office for Cooperative Education

RG-11/31/1

See Cooperative Education, Office for

Office of Academic Planning and Assessment (OAPA)

RG-4/3/6

Office of Budgeting and Institutional Studies (OBIS)

RG-4/3/2

See also V.C. for A. and F. RG-35/1 (records held in RG-4/2-3) ; Office of Planning and Budget (OPB) RG-4/3/3.

Office of Computing and Information Systems (OCIS) (1988- )

RG-6/5/1

Office of Economic Development (OED)

RG-4/15

See also Office of Industrial Relations and Regional Development (1987- ) RG-4/10

Office of Grant and Contract Administration

RG-4/4

Office of Human Relations

RG-4/6

See Human Relations, Office of

Office of Industrial Relations and Regional Development (1987- )

RG-4/10

See also Office of Economic Development (OED) RG-4/15

Office of Information Technologies (OIT)

RG-6/5/1

See Office of Computing and Information Systems (OCIS) (1988- )

Office of Institutional Research (OIR)

RG-4/3/5

See also Office of Institutional Research and Planning (OIRP) RG-4/3/4.

Office of Institutional Research and Planning (OIRP)

RG-4/3/4

See also Executive V.C. and Provost RG-6/1 (records held in RG-4/3/4) ; Associate V.C. for Academic Affairs RG-30/1 (records held in RG-4/3/4)

With a law degree from Yale in hand in 1968, Peter d’Errico began work as a staff attorney with Dinebeiina Nahiilna Be Agaditahe Navajo Legal Services in Shiprock, Arizona, representing American Indian interests in the US courts. Stemming from his frustrations with a stilted legal system, however, he evolved into an “anti-lawyer,” and in 1970 returned to academia. Joining the faculty at UMass, d’Errico focused his research and writing on the legal issues affecting indigenous peoples and he regularly taught courses on Indian law and the role of the law in imposing state systems on non-state societies. His impact was instrumental in establishing the Department of Legal Studies. Both before and after his retirment in 2002, d’Errico also remained active as a practitioner in Indian law.

The d’Errico collection contains a significant record of d’Errico’s high profile legal work in Indian law, including his work with Western Shoshone land rights and on the case Randall Trapp, et al. v. Commissioner DuBois, et al. In Trapp, a long-running, but ultimately successful First Amendement case, he and Robert Doyle represented prisoners in the Massachusetts Department of Corrections seeking to establish a sweat lodge.

Subjects

Freedom of religion

Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc.

University of Massachusetts Amherst--Faculty

University of Massachusetts Amherst. Department of Legal Studies

Contributors

As a child, W.E.B. Du Bois lived for several years on a five acre parcel of land on the Egremont plain near Great Barrington, Mass. Although barely five when his family moved into town, Du Bois never lost his feeling for this property that had been in his family for six generations, and when presented with the opportunity to reacquire the site in 1928, he accepted, intending to build a house there and settle.

Walter Wilson and Edmund Gordon purchased the Du Bois homesite in 1967 with the intention of erecting a memorial to Du Bois’ life and legacy. On October 18, 1969, the site was formally dedicated as the W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial Park, with civil-rights activist and future Georgia legislator Julian Bond giving the keynote address and Ossie Davis presiding as master of ceremonies. Nineteen years later, the Du Bois Memorial Foundation donated the property to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, designating the University of Massachusetts Amherst as custodian.